CPI(M) district secretary’s residence in Thiruvananthapuram attacked

Nameless individuals threw stones on the home of Communist Get together of India (Marxist) district secretary Anavoor Nagappan in Thiruvananthapuram early on Sunday. None have been injured within the assault. The stones broke windowpanes and landed in a bed room. Mr. Nagappan was not at residence on the time of the incident.

The episode got here shut on the heels of the arrest of 4 Akhila Bharathiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) employees for allegedly throwing stones at the CPI(M) district committee office late on Friday.

The retaliatory violence has put the district’s CPI(M) and BJP cadres on edge. Final week, an alleged CPI(M) assault on the ABVP State committee workplace triggered the tit-for-tat assaults.

The chain of occasions began when ABVP employees interrupted a Left Democratic Entrance (LDF) procession final week and petitioned the Vanchiyor counsellor, Gayatri Babu, to deal with the pitiful state of native roads within the Municipal ward. Irked CPI(M) employees stormed the ABVP workplace later, based on police.

The police recognized the arrested ABVP employees as Lal, Satheerthyan, Hari and Sankar. They stated the employees had been admitted to a non-public hospital following a brawl with CPI(M) activists.

The police suspect that the ABVP males slinked out of the hospital to assault the CPI(M) district workplace. Neighbourhood surveillance digicam footage offered the preliminary clues concerning the suspects.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, accompanied by CPI(M) high brass, had inspected the occasion’s district headquarters within the aftermath of the incident.

The assault on Mr. Nagappan’s home had come when the CPI(M) State secretariat was urgently assembly to debate a slew of vital points, together with nominating a senior chief to officiate for occasion State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who’s on medical depart.

Left Democratic Entrance (LDF) convenor E. P. Jayarajan stated the newest assault was half of a bigger BJP conspiracy to unleash anarchy within the State. He requested CPI(M) cadres to stick to peace and to not get provoked.

The BJP has blamed the CPI(M) for staging the assaults to play the sufferer and divert public consideration from the federal government’s failures and scandals, dogging the political govt. It has accused the federal government of foisting false instances on ABVP employees.